Loud and clear
Trump, naturally, goes even uglier in trying to argue away his lie about Obama yesterday.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday invoked the death of the son of his chief of staff, John Kelly, as he defended his claim from a day before that Barack Obama and other past presidents didn’t always call the families of slain service members.
“For the most part, to the best of my knowledge, I think I’ve called every family of somebody that’s died, and it’s the hardest call to make, and I said it very loud and clear yesterday. The hardest thing for me to do is do that,” Trump said Tuesday morning during an interview with Fox News radio host Brian Kilmeade.
I guess he thinks if he says it “loud and clear” that makes it not a lie? I guess he’s that stupid?
“Now, as far as other representatives, I don’t know,” he continued. “I mean, you could ask General Kelly did he get a call from Obama. You could ask other people. I don’t know what Obama’s policy was. I write letters, and I also call.”
He doesn’t know, but yesterday he said Obama didn’t call the families of soldiers killed in action. So to distract attention from his lie, he evokes the death of Kelly’s son. That’s ugly.
Trump has faced an onslaught of criticism — most notably from former Obama aides — since making the accusation against Obama on Monday afternoon in a Rose Garden news conference when asked about his silence regarding the death of four Green Berets related to an Oct. 4 ambush in Niger.
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Trump, however, said Tuesday that he doesn’t feel a need to clarify his remarks.
“There’s nothing to clarify,” he said, blaming CNN for first broaching the subject at his news conference. “This was, again, fake news CNN. I mean, they’re just a bunch of fakers.”
Fake news? But there’s video of him saying it. He said it at a news conference. How can it be fake?
I leave it to your wisdom to determine.
Anderson Cooper had a panel on discussing Trump’s lying the other day. The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza and Trump ballwasher Jason Miller were talking over each other when former GOP comms director Tara Setmayer brought the hammer down:
SETMAYER: Because he’s done this his entire career and never been held accountable for it. Now he’s in front of the entire world, where he has people who will actually hold him accountable for the things he says, and he does not know how to process that, because its not in his character to do so. He’s been a liar his entire life! He’s a BS artist! And when he gets backed into a corner, then his default is to lie, make something up, deflect and divert, and when people call him on it, he says “fake news.”
Seems an accurate analysis. A bit late in the day perhaps, GOP.
Accurate, I guess. But when does the part come where he’s held accountable?
Ben, I was reflecting on Sam Day’s comment, of course. Tara Setmayer is still brave to speak out now, even though it would have been much better much much sooner, and not a lone voice of someone who already left.
[Completely unrelated to this post, but here is a counterexample to anyone trying to pretend there is no pay gap:
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Holms, cue the MRAs (or Pinkeen) to explain to us why she wasn’t worth as much. She didn’t work as many hours? She didn’t have as many fans? Or just…well….she didn’t. When the real story, of course, is she didn’t have a penis.
At this distance, how well can we distinguish between the ‘spin’ of the inbred grifter, and the confabulation of the brain-damaged?